Meditation is an inner work practice, in which a person sits or lies peacefully and calmly attempts to clear their mind. Meditators will sometimes chant a phrase aloud or in their minds, or focus on a particular breathing style. By focusing the mind on breathing or chanting, meditators can clear their minds of distracting thoughts […]
Daria Rei is a Berlin-based artist who creates black ink tattoos in a style that is unique to her. The style of her tattoo designs is a mixture of contemporary illustrations and Ukiyo-e, an artistic style that has existed in Japan for centuries. Ukiyo-e means “pictures of the floating world” which means that the scene […]
Brazilian street artist José Flavio Audi is mad about mandalas and other esoteric and spiritual designs. He uses mandalas, lotus flowers, jewels and sacred geometry throughout his art, including in his tattoo designs. Audi favours intricate, delicate patterns that are very flowing and organic in nature. His petals seem as soft as real flower petals, […]
Witches have fascinated societies around the world for centuries. The idea of a women having magical power over others is a common theme in many folk tales, myths and legends. In the West, the image of a witch is usually of an unmarried woman who lives on her own in the woods, where she brews […]
Florin Zaharia works out of his tattoo studio in Romania, Zaharia tattoo studio, where he creates tattoos in a wide variety of styles, including realistic and geometric styles. In this video, we see him creating a geometric dotwork tattoo. He first tattoos crisp, beautifully clean outlines and then fills the shapes with dots to create […]
Vitaly Morozov is a tattoo artist based in Moscow, Russia. He doesn’t make a lot of noise about himself online, obviously preferring to allow his work to speak for itself. And perhaps he has earned the right to remain silent, because his tattoo sketches and designs speak very loudly indeed. Morozov’s tattoo designs are packed […]
Art duo Expanded Eye work with a variety of media. They create illustrations, street art paste-ups and tattoos. Jade Tomlinson and Kev James work together to create their art works, merging contemporary art styles and ideas with classic illustrative techniques to create tattoo designs that are a blend of old and new. Some of their […]
Tattoo artist Henry Puhnarevich uses this elegantly simple video to show how he creates his dotwork tattoos. We see him design the tattoo, which includes esoteric elements and sacred geometry before placing the stencil on his client’s skin, completing the outlines and then adding thousands of ink dots to create texture and shading. The more […]
The Hamsa symbol appears in many Abrahamic religions, and goes by many names. It is also known as the hand of Fatima, the hand of Mary and the hand of Miriam. The word “hamsa” probably came from the arabic word “khamsa”, which means “five” but also refers to the five fingers of the hand. The […]
Mikhail Kolesnikov, aka Mike Amanita, is a tattoo artist from St Petersburg, Russia, who specializes in black ink esoteric tattoos. Featuring mandalas, sacred geometry, optical illusions and elements from nature, Amanita manages to express the ideal that there is more to the world than meets the eye. Amanita is a master of visual textures and […]